Apprenticeships: a ladder to career success - Donald McInnes
To celebrate Scottish Apprenticeship Week from 2 to 6 March, we are highlighting the journeys of six former apprentices who have built remarkable paths in the food & drink sector. Here we speak to Donald McInnes, Food and Nutritionist, West Dunbartonshire Council.
Apprenticeships: a ladder to career success - Gordon Newlands
To celebrate Scottish Apprenticeship Week from 2 to 6 March, we are highlighting the journeys of six former apprentices who have built remarkable paths in the food & drink sector. Here we speak to Gordon Newlands, Brand Development Manager, Quality Meat Scotland (QMS)
Key Messages About Working in food and Drink
Find Your Future in Food and Drink provides a comprehensive resource for employers, educators and jobseekers alike, showcasing the the sectors diverse and rewarding career paths.
Build a St Andrews Day dinner
This learning resource has been created by a range of industry bodies from within the Scottish food and drink sector.
It has been designed with two main learning themes in mind: to teach young people about the journey their food makes, and to highlight some of the careers within the food and drink sector.
Build a Burns Supper
A relaunched version of a much-loved teaching resource based on a Burns Supper.
Originally created by Developing the Young Workforce, the range of resources from employers and partners showcases careers in the food & drink and land-based industries.
It is designed to help young people understand where our national food & drink comes from.
With Scots celebrating Burns Night every January, it is tied into the theme of a traditional Burns Supper, incorporating the ingredients for which Scotland is most famous.
From growing vegetables for soup and rearing salmon, through to sheep farming, making ice cream and the crucial dram, this highlights the opportunities a career in food & drink can offer.
Resource: new toolkit outlines reasons to find a future in food
A newly released toolkit – called Find Your Future In Food & Drink - provides a comprehensive resource for employers, educators, and jobseekers alike, showcasing the sector's diverse and rewarding career paths.
Food & drink bosses take on Apprentice for a Day challenge
Bosses of leading food & drink organisations have gone back to the workfloor to experience life as an “apprentice for a day”.
Resource: routes into food education
This shows information about pathways and progression routes into the food & drink industry that might provide inspiration on ways to develop the skillset of your workforce.
Publication type: website
Resource: Recruitment and Retention Toolkit
The full 68-page recruitment and retention toolkit from the Scotland Food & Drink Partnership provides a comprehensive guide for employers.
Publication type: pdf
Farming Foodsteps
Quality Meat Scotland’s interactive educational resource.
Explore the journey Scottish red meat makes from farm to fork and the role that red meat plays as part of a healthy balanced diet and in the economy and environment.
Why Work in Food & Drink?
Here’s a deck that outlines why you’d think about working in food & drink, including statistics, career maps, qualification guides as well as inspirational stories behind some the people working in the industry…